Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 October 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Community Policing and Rural Crime: Discussion (Resumed)

9:00 am

Mr. Richard Kennedy:

People are able to get away with it. They are able to come and go as they like and there are not enough prosecutions. There is no question about that. Hopefully we can improve on that but I do not want to leave the committee under any illusions that matters have improved because they have not. We all agree that there are limited resources but that will increase. We need to use those resources in the best way possible and we need the Garda to be present in the communities. There are probably some communities in Ireland that would not have seen a garda for five years.

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